A Beautiful Film

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2003)

I guess it's cool to badmouth this film but I'll have to break from the clique and say that 28 Days Later is a fine film. It is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is outstanding and the washed out, grainy, 8mm-style of filming is perfect for a zombie movie. In fact it reminds me of some of the classics. This film takes a dangerous tack by mixing genres (apocalypse/road trip/zombie) but it all seems to work here. The film is as scary as anything since The Blair Witch Project and will become a cult classic in no time flat. I won't spoil it but the last part of the film asks a few questions about human rage and where it comes from by showing that anyone can succumb to it if pushed far enough. 28 Days Later is a great film for zombie movie fans and it even pays homage to the great George Romero a few times but this is no copycat film. It is original and fresh and I liked it very much.